Liege Airport receives a new cargo company as of today, Tuesday 13 February 2018. Turkish Cargo, a subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, will fly once a week between Istanbul and Liege.
This company will be mainly transporting perishable goods for the European market (essentially France, Germany and Belgium). The freight handling will be done by Aviapartner.
For Steven Verhasselt, Commercial Vice-President of Liege Airport, the arrival of Turkish Cargo confirms the strong appeal of the airport: “Our strategy is very clear: priority is given to companies specialising in cargo. We transported 717,000 tonnes in 2017, which was a record for us, and we aim to exceed 800,000 tonnes in 2018. The Turkish market is very important and is ideally situated at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa”.
“Our cargo company is one of those with the strongest growth in the worldwide goods transport sector”, explains Mr ?lker Ayc?, CEO of Turkish Airlines. He adds: “We already fly to over 80 destinations and our ambition is to link 120 countries. We aim to join the top 5 companies in the world for our cargo subsidiary with 1.5m tonnes transported by the end of 2018”.
Liege Airport, 13 February 2018
This post was published on 13 February 2018 17:43
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